Living with REM Behavior Disorder

I am female and 26yrs. old. I have talked in my sleep since I was a young child (elementary school age). Now as an adult I don’t just talk I usually yell, scream and say aggressive and profane things to people that I am dreaming about. When I am overly stressed I am violent in my sleep to the extent that I have tried pushing my fiance out of bed while kneeling and dreaming at the same time that I was pushing some girl out of my truck and screaming mean things to the girl in the process.

I have recently dreamed about rearranging the bed and subsequently put my pillow over my fiances head and then laid my head down on the pillow, with in a very short amount of time (unsure how long) I awoke to realize what I had done and he woke up too. I have yet to physically hurt him, but I am afraid that at some point in time I might. I also violently kick my legs, kick the covers off the bed, wake up from dreams and litterally jump up out of bed as if I had been awake and heard a sttrange noise, and uncontroabally shake in my sleep. The other day he told me that I whine like a child in my sleep. The other problem is that I am so “active” in my sleep that I always wake up exahusted.

I finally have swallowed my pride and discussed the issue with my doctor who told me that I need to do a sleep study. I also have migraines 3-4 times a week with some that are relieved with medicine only to return once the medicine wears off. I am not the only person in my family who is so “active” in their sleep. According to everything I have read it would be unusual for me to be experiencing RBD. After my sleep study and follow up I will repost to let you know what was found so maybe someone else in my situation might not feel as hesitate as I did to seek some kind of help.